Rwanda - Then and Now
Imagine you have been mobilized to kill the “cockroaches” known as the Tutsi’s by the Hutu people but you can only tell by looking at their government ID to know if they are a Tutsi.
Imagine being a wife and mother watching your husband murdered while your sons watch before they are killed and they you are raped repeatedly and then they find your newborn baby and set the baby on fire while holding you down and raping you again.
Speechless. Wondering how can the country of Rwanda rebuild after such hatred and acts so heinous it is hard to comprehend 17 years later. Victims giving grace to murderers – a miracle.
We will spend time with Bishop John Rucyahana who is leading the reconciliation movement. He wrote in his book The Bishop of Rwanda he has hope as he sees God heal the human mind. Reconciliation between the victims and murders is happening. The people were desperate, the country was desperate and God was there to heal the nation.
Reconciliation is hard, but not impossible. God makes the impossible possible and His grace allows healing and forgiveness.
If reconciliation can happen in Rwanda, it can happen anywhere in the world.
Beautiful, goodness Africa is a whole new level of desperation and darkness, but there is reconciliation and I am so glad you get to be a vehicle of the light of God to these people I always think of the quotes from movies like Hotel Rwanda or Blood Diamond like "It's like one of those infomercials with African kids with swollen bellies and flies in their eyes. See here I've got dead mothers, I've got severed limbs, but it's *nothing* new. Sure, it might make some people cry if they read it, maybe even write a check. But it's not going to be enough to make it stop!" But we still have to be THE one to the one because it is what God has called us to! yay- you are doing it!
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